Healing
Spirituality and Money: Friends or Foe?
My relationship to money has always been fraught. I pursued a Spiritual path right from my early adulthood and felt daunted by the financial demands of the real world. I wanted to travel, take courses and experience life, and of course, all these things cost money. I felt conflicted because I had these ambitions and…
Read MoreThe practice of Self Forgiveness: an interview with Kimberly Bowen
Kimberly Bowen is a senior faculty member of the Training in Power Academy and one of the facilitators of the popular Forgiveness workshop on Meetups. With the profound transformation she’s witnessed in this workshop and with herself on this topic, we wanted to learn more about the role of Forgiveness in the healing journey. What…
Read MoreWhat’s JOY got to do with it? How to feel more Joy into your life.
On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate your joy-ratio right now? Could you use some more joy in your life? It can be so easy to feel low when you open up your news feed or grapple with the to-do list of the week. Life can feel like a slog, a series of…
Read MoreImagination or Intuition? How to trust the difference.
In our April blog post, with the help of published writer and veteran faculty member Lisa Voisin, we explored the relationship between imagination, creativity and meditation. Imagination keeps our ideas flowing and mind open, but sometimes it can make us question what is real or not. This can be tricky if you’re on the path…
Read MoreAre you a psychic sponge? Three ways to stop sucking it up.
Picture this scene: You’re at a party interacting with fun people, laughing and feeling good. A friend approaches, who you had noticed wasn’t looking so great when you entered the room. They start to share the contents of their depressing day and before you know it, your own mood starts to drop. They finish their…
Read MoreA Gift for You: Heal the Soul Series
It’s the holiday season! Parties, food, travel, gift giving…While you might be checking off a gift giving list for others, remember to also include yourself! What gifts will you receive in 2024? Here at the Academy, we’d like to share the gift of the Heal the Soul Series. This 10 part workshop and podcast series…
Read MoreFollowing your dreams: The work of transformation
This past summer, my partner and I packed up our family and moved across the country to open a new chapter of our lives and follow our dreams. It was a big move on many levels and after six months of preparing, traveling, unpacking and landing in our new life, we were ready to embrace…
Read MoreThree tips for better inner-communication
If you boil down most relationship conflicts to one thing, it’s communication. Or rather, miscommunication! But how does this play out in the most important relationship we have? No, not with our family or life partner, our relationship with ourselves. In our foundational course, we teach that our external relationships are often a type of…
Read MoreMeditation and movement Part 1: An interview with Anne Binning
In preparation for our September blog post featuring Anne Binning, we are sharing an interview with Anne from 2019, which reads just as relevant today as it did then, if not more! Enjoy! Anne is senior faculty member of the Training in Power Academy and the director of the Master Warriors Program. In Anne’s own…
Read MoreAre you a Spiritual Adult? 3 things that can hold you back.
The term Spiritual Adult is something we introduce in our Foundational course, Level 1. We use it to describe the maturity that comes with taking responsibility for your spiritual path, choices and overall wellbeing. While we all automatically become adults biologically, Spiritual Adulthood can come at any time in life, or not at all! One…
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